SALT LAKE CITY -- The season long since soured, the Detroit Pistons took yet another dual blow Monday in a 103-90 loss to the Utah Jazz which included two more key injuries.One day after he became the brunt of jokes for having the audacity to try blocking a dunk rather than step timidly aside, Brandon Knight suffered a left ankle sprain just more than three minutes into the game and did not return.The Pistons already were playing without Jason Maxiell, who was the team's only player to start every game but sat with a left ankle sprain suffered in Sunday's loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, and Andre Drummond, who missed his 16th consecutive game with a back injury.Jerebko started at power forward for Maxiell.The result was a loss to a Utah team that was reeling after four consecutive losses cost it the eighth spot in the Western Conference standings, the playoff dividing line.The Pistons lost their sixth in a row and ninth in their last 10 games.They also lost at Utah for the 11th consecutive time, dating to 2002.The Pistons (23-43) trailed by 14 points at halftime before scoring 33 points in the third quarter and pulling within 76-70 going into the fourth.

They got as close as 82-77 before the Jazz pulled away with help of 69-percent shooting (11 of 16) in the fourth quarter.HIGHLIGHTS--The Pistons released their first update on Drummond since the Feb. 8 announcement that he was expected to miss four to six weeks with a stress fracture in his fifth lumbar vertebra. The press release said the team is "pleased" with his recovery and he is beginning a "second phase of rehabilitation and conditioning that will include a progression of basketball related activities," with no timetable for his return.

--Khris Middleton scored 12 points off the bench for the Pistons.LOWLIGHTS--The Jazz outrebounded the Pistons 47-30. The key was a stretch early in the second period when the Jazz built a lead they never relinquished, in part by grabbing the first seven rebounds of the quarter against a Pistons lineup which included Slava Kravtsov and Charlie Villanueva playing as the bigs.

--Knight was hurt on a one-on-one fast break when he was contested by Utah guard Randy Foye and landed awkwardly. He was fouled on the play with 8:28 left in the first quarter and went directly to the locker room. Slava Kravtsov was selected off the bench by Utah coach Ty Corbin to shoot the free throws and missed both.ISSUE OF THE DAY: FINAL VERDICTThe Pistons have that faraway look of a team that isn't playing for anything. The best news, both for them and to them, is 66 games down, 16 to go.--Download the Detroit Pistons on MLive app for iPhone and Android--Follow David Mayo on Twitter--Like MLive's Detroit Pistons Facebook page